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. . . OF . . . 

Comrade Wm. McKinley 



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Grand Army Memorial Souvenir 

of 

Comrade Wm. McKinley 

McKinley Post No. 25, Formerly Canton Post, 

Department of Ohio, G. A. R. 

JS M M M JS 

In publishing a work of this kind, it is courtesy to dedicate it to some one individual, or to a body of individuals 
who represent closely the man himself. 

There was no body of men outside of our great Republic itself, dearer to the heart of our late President than 
the Grand Army. It represented to him a long association of struggles that our Government might remain intact. 

During those days of anxious watching while he lay ill, none were more attentive and interested than the men 
of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

A noble man, nobly consecrated to man, never dies ; this was his characteristic attitude toward the Grand Army 
of the Republic. He loved it because of the noble manhood shown, the soul-inspiring patriotism advanced, and the 
fearless attack it made upon the destroyer of liberty. 

It was to him the embodiment of mutual respect, confidence and friendship. Therefore it is but fitting that 
this, his last speech, combining all that is pure, noble and loyal, be dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic. 












VETERAN 1901. 



CHARLES A. ORR, 

Department Commander G. A. R., Dept, of N. Y., and 
Junior Vice-Commander Medal of Honor Legion. 


LIEUT. ANDREW R. PALMER, 
Enlisted May 1st, 1861. 


SOLDIER 1861. 


CAPT. FRANK MYERS, 
Enlisted May 1, 1861. 


SOLDIER 1861. 












T O Comrade Charles A. Orr, Commander of the Department of New York, much credit is due for his untiring 
effort and forethought in making the initiatory arrangements to have the Grand Army take a part in the 
last sad ceremonies connected with the funeral of our beloved Comrade McKinley. 

On Saturday evening, September 14th, Comrade Orr tendered to President Roosevelt, through comrades 
Sterrett, Kay, Ewell and Coulter, the services of the Grand Army of the Republic. President Roosevelt wrote a note 
to Secretary Cortelyou asking that the G. A. R. be given a place in line of escort. Arrangements were made giving 
the comrades of the order distinguished recognition throughout the entire ceremonies, from the first service at the 
Milburn place, to the final interment at Canton. 

Twelve comrades were present at the service at Milburn place, Sunday morning. The body escort from the City 

Hall in Buffalo, Monday morning to the funeral train, was composed of comrades under command of Commander Orr. 

Comrades from nearly if not all the departments were represented. In the first files to follow the remains were : 

Charles A. Orr, Commander Department of New York; Frank M. Sterrett, Adjutant General; Joseph W. Kay, 
Past Department Commander, New York; O. H. Coulter, Past Department Commander, Kansas; Joseph E. Ewell, 
Judge Advocate, Department New York; P. H. Coney, Member National Council, Kansas. 

The next files were made up from the representatives of the various Posts of Buffalo and comrades from all 

Departments. The funeral train was accompanied to Washington by Charles A. Orr, Commander Department of New 

York; Frank M. Sterrett, Adjutant General; Alfred Eyth, Past Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief; Joseph W. Kay, Past 
Commander Department of New York ; W. F. Billings, Commander Post No. 9, Buffalo, N. Y. At Washington, De¬ 
partment Commander Israel W. Stone, of the Department of- the Potomac, had charge of the special escort, composed 
of comrades. 

The Commander-in-Chief Grand Army of the Republic, Ell Torrance, attended the funeral obsequies of the late 
President, Comrade William McKinley, at Washington, D. C., and with the following members of the Council of 
Administration, accompanied the funeral train to Canton, Ohio, and represented the Grand Army of the Republic, in 
the final ceremonies: Frank M. Sterrett, Adjutant General; William H. Armstrong, National Council Administration, 
Department of Indiana; Edgar Allen, National Council Administration, Department of Virginia; A. A. Taylor, National 
Council Administration, Department of Ohio. 




ELL TORRANCE, 
Commander-in-Chief, G.A.R. 


JOHN McELROY, 

Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, G.A.R. 




JOSEPH E. EWELL, 

Judge Advocate, Department of N. Y. 


ALFRED LYTH, 

Past Sen.Vice Comd’r-in-Chief, G.A. R. 



F. M. STERRETT, 
Adjutant General, G.A.R. 



JOSEPH w’ KAY, 

Past Dept. Comd’r, N. Y., G.A.R. 



CHARLES A. ORR, 

Comd’r Department N.Y., G.A R. 



W. F. BILLINGS, 

Comd’r Post No. 9, Buffalo, N. Y. 


Comrades Sterrett, Orr, Kay, Lyth and Billings accompanied the funeral train from Buffalo to Washington, D. C., and were there, with 
Comrade McElroy, assigned places in the special escort of honor, by Commander-in-Chief Ell Torrance. 



























<l Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity , happiness and peace 
to all our neighbors , and like blessings to all the Peoples and Powers of Earth 



THE LATE PRESIDENT McKINLEY 


President McKinley's 

Pan-American Address 


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H Short Biographical Sketch of the Cate President. 

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EXTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC—PAN-AMERICAN GROUNDS. 
Where President McKinley was foully assassinated while holding a 
Public Reception, September 6th, 1901. 






















Biographical Sketch 


WILLIAM McKINLEY, whose administration as President of the United States was fraught with honor, dignity 
and wisdom, was born at Niles, Ohio, February 26th, 1844. His early education was comprehensive, and in 1860-61, he 
taught school at Poland, Ohio, When President Lincoln called upon the nation’s sons to volunteer in the war for the sup¬ 
pression of the blight of slavery, William McKinley was among the first to respond. As a private soldier he enlisted. From 
private to breveted Major, he won his way by gallant and brave service. A born leader of men he showed himself in military 
life, as in civic. After the close of the war he studied law at Warren, Ohio, and later engaged in his chosen profession in 
Canton, Ohio. In 1869 he was elected District-Attorney of Stark County, in which capacity^ he served until 1872. 

He married, in 1871, Miss Ida Saxton, who survives him. 

Mr. McKinley served in the Forty-Fifth Congress, and subsequently was re-elected to the Fifty-First, and to the 
intervening congresses. In 1891 he was elected Governor of Ohio, by a plurality of twenty-thousand votes. 

At the Republican National Convention, at Minneapolis, in 1892, Mr. McKinley received one hundred and eighty-two 
votes for the Presidential nomination. In 1893 he was re-elected governor of Ohio, by twenty-one thousand plurality. As 
President of the United States he was first elected in 1896. He was re-elected in 1900. After an administration most ad¬ 
mirable, most potent and wise, William McKinley was shot down by a misguided assassin, while holding a reception in the 
Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., September 6th, 1901. 

‘ ‘ To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die. ’ ’ 

And while the world at large must deplore the loss of a good and grand man—grand by his wisdom and diplomacy; 
good by his kindliness and Godliness—we must all feel that we are much better for his influence. “We loved him, he loved 
us,” and for his life, for his benign influence, we thank God. May every true American feel grateful for his life, and be better 
for the influence of his genial kindliness and true humanity. 




Some Characteristic Sayings By William mcKinley 


“ A noble manhood, nobly consecrated to man, never dies.” 

” Patriotism is above party and National honor is dearer than any party name.” 

‘ ‘ I believe in arbitration as a principle ; I believe it should prevail in the settlement of international differences. It 
represents a higher civilization than the arbitrament of war. I believe it is in close accord with the best thought and senti¬ 
ment of mankind ; I believe God puts no nation in supreme place which will not do supreme duty.” 

“ An open schoolhouse free to all, evidences the highest type of advanced civilization. It is the gateway to progress, 
prosperity, and honor and the best security for the liberties and independence of the people. It is the strongest rock of the 
foundation, the most enduring stone of the temple of liberty; our surest stay in every storm, our present safety, our future 
hope—aye, the very citadel of our influence and power It is better than garrisons and guns, than forts and fleets.” 

“ The want of the time is manly men, men of character, culture and courage, of faith and sincerety; the exalted man¬ 
hood which forges its way to the front by the force of its own merits.” 

“ The American home where honesty, sobriety and truth preside, and a simple, everyday virtue without pomp and os¬ 
tentation is practiced, is the nursery of all true educations.” 

‘ 1 Christian character is the foundation upon which we must build if our citizenship is to be lifted up and our institu¬ 
tions are to endure. ’ ’ 

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of man more than 
the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems 
to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.” 

‘ ‘ The men who established this Government had faith in God and sublimely trusted Him. They besought counsel 
and advice in every step of their progress. And so it has been ever since; American history abounds in instances of this trait 
of piety, this sincere reliance on a higher power in all great trials of our National affairs.” 




Our Destiny. 


Where our artisans have the admitted capacity to 
excel, where our inventive genius has initiated many 
of the grandest discoveries of these later days, and where 
the native resources of our land are as limitless as they 
are valuable to supply the world's needs, it is our prov¬ 
ince, as it should be our earnest care, to lead in the 
march of human progress, and not rest content with any 
secondary place. 


william McKinley. 





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INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC—PAN-AMERICAN GROUNDS, 
The cross marks the exact spot where President McKinley stood 
when the assassin fired the .fatal shot. 




















MUItam flftc1Rtnle\>’s flban=Hmerican Hbbress. 

Delivered at the Exposition Grounds, Buffalo, N. Y., President’s Day, September 5th, 1901. 


HIS LAST PUBLIC SPEECH. 


President Milburn, Director-Generae Buchanan, Commissioners, Ladies and Genteemen: 

I am glad to be again in the city of Buffalo and exchange greetings with her people, to whose generous hospitality I 
am not a stranger and with whose good will I have been repeatedly and signally honored. To-day I have additional satisfac¬ 
tion in meeting and giving welcome to the foreign representatives assembled here, whose presence and participation in this 
Exposition have contributed in so marked a degree to its interest and success. To the Commissioners of the Dominion of 
Canada and the British Colonies, the French Colonies, the Republics of Mexico and of Central and South America, and the 
Commissioners of Cuba and Porto Rico, who share with us in this undertaking, we give the hand of fellowship and felicitate 
with them upon the triumphs of art, science, education and manufacture which the old has bequeathed to the new century. 

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world’s advancement. They stimulate the energy, 
enterprise and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the 
daily life of the people. They open mighty storehouses of information to the student. Every exposition, great or small, has 
helped to some onward step. Comparison of ideas is always educational; and as such instructs the brain and hand of man. 
Friendly rivalry follows, which is the spur to industrial improvement, the inspiration to useful invention and to high endeavor 
in all departments of human activity. It exacts a study of the wants, comforts, and even the whims of the people, and recog¬ 
nizes the efficacy of high quality and low prices to win their favor. The quest for trade is an incentive to men of business to 
devise, invent, improve and economize in the cost of production. Business life, whether among ourselves, or with other peo¬ 
ples, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be cling¬ 
ing to the clumsy and antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the 
twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But, though commercial competitors we are, commer¬ 
cial enemies we must not be. 





THE FUNERAL PROCESSION LEAVING THE MILBURN RESIDENCE 
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 th, 1901. 










PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST ADDRESS. 


The Pan-American Exposition has done its work thoroughly, presenting in its exhibits evidences of the highest skill 
and illustrating the progress of the human family in the Western Hemisphere. This portion of the earth has no cause for 
humiliation for the part it has performed in the march of civilization. It has not accomplished everything; far from it. It 
has simply done its best, and without vanity or boastfulness, and recognizing the manifold achievements of others, it invites 
the friendly rivalry of all the powers in the peaceful pursuits of trade and commerce, and will co-operate with all in advancing 
the highest and best interests of humanity. The wisdom and energy of all the nations are none too great for the world’s 
work. The success of art, science, industry and invention is an international asset and a common glory. 

After all, how near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern inventions have brought into close relation 
widely separated peoples and made them better acquainted. Geographic and political divisions will continue to exist, but 
distances have been effaced. Swift ships and fast trains are becoming cosmopolitan. They invade fields which a few years 
ago were impenetrable. The world’s products are exchanged as never before, and with increasing transportation facilities 
come increasing knowledge and larger trade. Prices are fixed with mathematical precision by supply and demand. The 
world’s selling prices are regulated by market and crop reports. We travel greater distances in a short space of time, and 
with more ease than was ever dreamed of by the fathers. Isolation is no longer possible or desirable. 

The same important news is read, though in different languages, the same day in all Christendom. The telegraph 
keeps us advised of what is occurring everywhere, and the press foreshadows, with more or less accuracy, the plans and 
purposes of the nations. Market prices of products and of securities are hourly known in every commercial mart, and the 
investments of the people extend beyond all their own national boundaries into the remotest parts of the earth. Vast trans¬ 
actions are conducted and international exchanges are made by the tick of the cable. Every event of interest is immediately 
bulletined. The quick gathering and transmission of news, like rapid transit, are of recent origin, and are only made possi¬ 
ble by the genius of the inventor and the courage of the investor. It took a special messenger of the Government, with every 
facility known at the time for rapid travel, nineteen days to go from the city of Washington to New Orleans with a message 
to General Jackson that the war with England had ceased and a treaty of peace had been signed. How different now ! We 
reached General Miles in Porto Rico by cable, and were able‘, through the military telegraph, to stop his army on the firing 
line with the message that the United States and Spain had signed a protocol suspending hostilities. 

We knew almost instantly of the first shots fired at Santiago; and the subsequent surrender of the Spanish forces was 
known at Washington in less than an hour of its consummation. The first ship of Cervera’s fleet had hardly emerged from 




MILITARY GUARD SURROUNDING THE CASKET CONTAINING THE BODY 
OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY, WHICH LAY IN STATE IN THE 
CITY HALL, BUFFALO, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 15th, 1901. 









PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST ADDRESS. 


that historic harbor when the fact was flashed to our Capitol, and the swift destruction that followed was announced immedi¬ 
ately through the wonderful medium of telegraphy. 

So accustomed are we to safe and easy communication with distant lands, that its temporary interruption, even in 
ordinary times, results in loss and inconvenience. We shall never forget the days of anxious waiting and awful suspense 
when no information was permitted to be sent from Pekin, and the diplomatic representatives of the nations in China, cut off 
from all communication, inside and outside of the walled capital, were surrounded by an angry misguided mob that threat¬ 
ened their lives; nor the joy that thrilled the world when a single message from the Government of the United States brought 
through our Minister the first news of the safety of the besieged diplomats. 

At the beginning of the 19th century there was not a mile of steam railroad on the globe. Now there are enough 
miles to make its circuit many times. Then there was not a line of electric telegraph; now we have a vast mileage traversing 
all lands and all seas. God and man have linked the nations together. No nation Can longer be indifferent to any other. 
And as we are brought more and more in touch with each other, the less occasion is there for misunderstandings, and the 
stronger the disposition, when we have differences, to adjust them in the court of arbitration, which is the noblest forum for 
the settlement of international disputes. 

My fellow citizens : Trade statistics indicate that this country is in a state of unexampled prosperit)’. The figures ar& 
almost appalling. They show that we are utilizing our fields and forests and mines, and that we are furnishing profitable em¬ 
ployment to the millions of workingmen throughout the United States, bringing comfort and happiness to their homes, and 
making it possible to lay by savings for old age and disability. That all the people are participating in the great prosperity 
is seen in every American community and shown by the enormous and unprecedented deposits in our savings banks. Our 
duty in the care and security of these deposits and their safe investment demands the highest integrity and the best business 
capacity of those in charge of those depositories of the people’s earnings. 

We have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of toil and struggle, in which every part of the country 
has its stake which will not permit of either neglect, or of undue selfishness. No narrow sordid policy will subserve it. The 
greatest skill and wisdom on the part of manufacturers and producers will be required to hold and increase it. Our industrial 
enterprises which have grown to such great proportions affect the homes and occupations of the people and the welfare of the 
country. Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem 
of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention. Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. 




THE BODY OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY BEING BORNE FROM THE 
BUFFALO CITY HALL TO THE HEARSE. 










PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST ADDRESS. 


No other policy will get more. In these times of marvelous business energy and gain we ought to be looking to the future, 
strengthening the weak places in our industrial and commercial systems, that we may be ready for any storm or strain. 

By sensible trade arrangements which will not interrupt our home production, we shall extend the outlets for our in¬ 
creasing surplus. A system which provides a mutual exchange of communities is manifestly essential to the continued and 
healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy 
little or nothing. If such a thing were possible it would not be best for us, for those with whpm we deal. We should take 
from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor. Reciprocity is the natural 
outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. 

What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a 
foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can aud buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions and 
thereby make a greater demand for home labor. 

The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial 
wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals?. Reciprocity treaties are in 
harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not. 

If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, 
why should they not be employed to promote the markets abroad? Then, too, we have inadequate steamship service. New 
lines of steamers have already been put in commission between the Pacific coast ports of the United States and those on the 
western coasts of Mexico and Central and South America. These should be followed up with direct steamship lines between 
the Eastern coast of the United States and South American ports. One of the needs of the times is direct commercial lines 
from our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we have but barely touched ; next in advantage to having 
the thing to sell is to have the conveyance to carry it to the buyer. 

We must encourage our merchant marine. We must have more ships. They must be under the American flag, built 
and manned and owned by Americans. These will not only be profitable in a commercial sense, they will be messengers of 
peace and amity wherever they go. We must build the Isthmian Canal, which will unite the two oceans and give a straight 
line of water communication with the western coasts of Central and South America and Mexico. The construction of a 
Pacific cable can be no longer postponed. 

In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern you. are performing an important part. This Ex- 




PRESIDENT McKIN LEY'S LAST ADDRESS. 


position would have touched the heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert and ever constant for 
a larger commerce and a truer fraternity of the republics of the New World. His broad American spirit is felt and mani¬ 
fested here. He needs no identification to an assemblage of Americans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseparably asso¬ 
ciated with the Pan-American movement which finds here practical and substantial expression, and which we hope will be 
firmly advanced by the Pan-American Congress that assembled this autumn in the Capitol of Mexico. The good work will 
go on. It cannot be stopped. These buildings will disappear ; this creation of art and beauty and industry will perish from 
sight, but their influence will remain to 

“Make it live beyond its too short living 
With praises and thanksgiving.’’ 

Who can tell the new thoughts that have been awakened, the ambitions fired and the high achievements that will be 
wrought through this Exposition ? Gentlemen : Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict; and that 
our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved 
to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world’s good, and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce 
and trade for us all, but more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friendship which will deepen 
and endure. 

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness and peace to all our neighbors, and like 
blessings to all the Peoples and Powers of Earth. 



TOMB AT WEST LAWN CEMETERY, CANTON, OHIO 
Where Comrade McKinley was laid at rest. 









Resolutions Adopted by the Grand Army of the Republic and forwarded to Itirs. Him. IHcRinley 


Office of the Headquarters Department of New York, G. A. R., 

Judge Advocate. Charles A. Orr, Department Commander. 

Buffalo,' N. Y., September 17, 1901. 

The Grand Army of the Republic, represented by comrades from every section of our country, assembled in the 
Temple of Music of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., under the auspices of the Department of New York, 
G. A. R., hereby expresses its profound grief and sorrow in the great calamity that has overtaken the nation, and its tender 
and affectionate regard for its late beloved comrade William McKinley, who, equally with those who have fallen on the field 
of battle, has laid down his life for his country. 

As a soldier he was brave and courageous. As a citizen he fulfilled the highest obligations. As a public official he 
directed the policy of the nation during a critical period, with profound wisdom and matchless skill, exhibiting the highest 
type of Christian statesmanship. As a leader he was loved and esteemed, and his judgment was intuitive and unerring. In 
his domestic life he gave a happy and felicitous example of sympathetic devotion to wife and a reverend love for home that 
in an extraordinary degree endeared him to the nation. 

Possessed of unusual wisdom and rare strength of character, he demonstrated that the most sympathetic nature may 
be joined with titanic power, intellectual greatness, and prophetic vision. But yesterday we saw him at the pinnacle of 
human power and greatness, occupying the highest earthly position, speaking to the multitudes assembled on these grounds 
in words of inspired wisdom that challenged the admiration of the entire civilized world ; to-day a narrow house and a win¬ 
dowless home contains all that was mortal of William McKinley. 

His name will be inscribed on the nation’s roll of honor and immortality, and the record of his life will be an uplifting 
guidance during all the ages to come. 

We tender our profoundest sympathy to the bereaved widow, whose love and devotion largely aided her husband in 
his distinguished career, and we direct that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to her. 


DEO RASSIEUR, 

Past Dept. Commander, G. A. R., St. Louis, Mo. 

O. H. COUETER, 

Past Dept. Commander, G. A. R., Topeka, Kas. 


GEO. S. EVANS, 

Past Dept. Commander, G. A. R., Cambridge, Mass. 

J. L. BENNETT, 

Judge Advocate, Dept. Ill., G. A. R., Chicago, Ill. 


JOSEPH E. EWEEE, 

Judge Advocate, Dept, of New York, G. A. R., Buffalo, N. Y. 

The McKinley Memorial Publishing Co., Buffalo, N, Y., have the sole right to reproduce and publish these resolutions. 
LSigned] C. A. ORR, Dept. Commander. 


Committee. 







Copyrighted by McKinley Memorial Pub. Co., Buffalo, 1902. 

Resolutions adopted by a Committee of the G. A. R. at the Temple of Music, Pan- 
American Exposition, September 17, 1901 , sent to Mrs. Wm. McKinley. 



















Grand Army of tbc Republic tribute 


A beautiful floral tribute was sent in behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a letter of sympathy by 
the Commander-in-Chief, to Mrs. McKinley, as follows : 

‘ ‘ On behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, I wish to comfort you with the assurance that you have the 
tender sympathy and unfailing love of every surviving soldier of the Union, and our prayer is that the gracious 
Father will sustain you. 

[Signed] “EEE TORRANCE, 

Commander-in-Chief .’ ’ 


William McKinley was the last of the heroes' of the Civil War to occupy the high offlee of President. He 
honored the office by which he was honored. He died as he lived, an honored Christian gentleman. 


The first act of the Thirty-fifth National Encampment on convening the second morning after the announcement 
of the President’s dying condition was made, was to stand with bowed heads and repeat the Ford’s Prayer. 

The last act of the Thirty-fifth National Encampment was to sing “Nearer My God to Thee.” 


“COMRADE McKINLEY dearly LOVED THE FLAG." 

“ McKinley the soldier, moulded McKinley the statesman. For four years the one object before him, at sunrise and 
sunset, leading the way in toilsome marches, its folds illuminating the tented field and inspiring defense and assault, was the 
flag. It was dearer to him than life, and for it he repeatedly risked his life. It stood for country, home, and liberty. It be¬ 
came sacred in his eyes, and he followed it with devotion amounting almost to adoration .”—Chauncey M. Depezc. 








OFFICERS OF THE FAMOUS WIEDRICH’S BATTERY, 

1st N. Y. LIGHT ARTILLERY. 

THE BOY OF 1861. 


MAN OF 1901. 



GEORGE W. FLYNN, 

Enlisted Nov. 20, 1861, at 15 years of age. 




GEORGE W. FLYNN, 
of to-day. 


1—Lieut. C. Schmitt. 2—Sergt Philip Bachert. 
3—Capt. Michael Wiedrich. 





Armv Record of Comrade Ulilliam McKinley 


library of congress 

lillj 3 g03 242 J 


Born at Niles, Trumbull,'County, Ohio, January 29, 1843. Enlisted as private, Co. E, 23d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
at Poland, Ohio, and mustered in at Columbus, Ohio, June 11, 1861. Appointed regimental Commissary'Sergeant, April 
15, 1862; Second Lieutenant Co. D., November 3, 1862; First Lieutenant, March 30, 1863; Captain, September 1, 1864. 
Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, March 13, 1865, “For gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in West 


Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. ’ 

’ Mustered 

out 

; with 

regiment, July 26, 1865. 



Engaged in actions of 







Carnifax Ferry, Va., 

September 

10, 

1861 

Otter Creek, Va., 

June 

16, 1864 

Clark’s Hollow, Va., 

May 

1, 

1862 

Lynchburg, Va., 

June 17 and 

18, 1864 

Princeton, Va., 

May 

15 , 

1862 

Buford’s Gap, Va., 

July 

20, 1864 

South Mountain, Md., 

. September 

H, 

1862 

Kernstown, Va., 

• July 

24, 1864 

Antietam, Md., 

September 

17 , 

1862 

Winchester, Va., 

August 

17, 1864 

Buffington, Ohio River, 

. July 

18, 

1863 

Berryville, Va., 

. , September 

3, 1864 

Cloyd’s Mountain, Va., 

May 

9 , 

1864 

Opequan, Va., 

September 

19, 1864 

New River Bridge, Va., . 

. May 

10, 

1864 

Fisher’s Hill, Va., 

. September 

22, 1864 

Lexington, Va., 

June 

11, 

1864 

Cedar Creek,, Va., 

. October 

19, 1864 

Buchanan, Va., 

. June 

x 3 > 

1864 





Admitted to the Bar at Warren, Ohio, in March, 1867. Prosecuting Attorney, Stark County, Ohio, 1869 to 1871. 
Representative in the 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st Congresses. Governor of Ohio, January 11, 1892, to 
January 13, 1896. President of the United States, March 4, 1897, t° September 14, 1901. Died at Buffalo, N. Y., Sep¬ 
tember 14, 190r. Buried at Canton, Ohio, September 19, 1901. Mustered in as Comrade, G-. A. R., in Canton Post 
(now McKinley Post) No. 25, Department of Ohio, G. A. R., July 7, 1880. 


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